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Do you want to restrict WordPress pages by user role? Many WordPress businesses need to control which users can access certain pages on their websites. In this article, we will show you how to easily restrict access to certain WordPress pages by user role.

Restricting WordPress Pages by User Role

By default, WordPress comes with a limited set of tools to restrict content on your website. You can create private and password protected posts, but these features don’t allow you to limit access by user role.

Luckily, there are several WordPress plugins that allow you to do just that. You can choose one of them to restrict pages to certain users, user groups, or user roles.

Using these plugins, you can create a membership website, pay-per-view websites, or even family blogs. You can also monetize your content by adding paid subscriptions.

That being said, let’s take a look at how to properly restrict WordPress pages by user role. We will be showing you different plugins, you can choose the one that best suits your needs.

Restrict Content Pro

Restrict Content Pro is a great option to control who has access to your website content. It also allows you to add paid subscriptions and make money online from your membership website.

First, you will need to install and activate the Restrict Content Pro plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you need to visit Restrict » Settings page to enter your license key. You can get this key from your account on Restrict Content Pro website.

Next, you need to switch to the payments tab to select a payment gateway.

Next, you need to switch to the ‘PayPal Settings’ tab to enter your PayPal email address.

By default, LearnDash only offers PayPal payment gateway. Stripe and 2Checkout are available as extensions.

Now you can go to LearnDash LMS » Courses page and click on the ‘Add New’ button to add your first course.

Enter a title and description for your course. The description part will be visible to all users to explain what this course is about.

After that you need to scroll down to the course options meta box. Under the course price type option, you can select an access option for the course.

The plugin allows you to create open (public) or closed courses, free, buy bow, and recurring price types.

For free courses, your users will still need to enroll into course by creating account.

You can now save or publish your course and preview it on your website.

Now that you have created a course, it is still empty. To fill it up you will need to add the course contents like lessons, quizzes, and assignments.

LearnDash is a powerful tool to sell online courses while restricting access to content. It works really well with MemberPress to create subscription plans that automatically give users access to different courses.

That’s all for now. We hope this article helped you learn how to easily restrict WordPress pages by user role. You may also want to see our ultimate step by step WordPress security guide for beginners.

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